This is Liz

I didn't bring anything

Thu Jan 24, 11:37 PM

Drive by update. Work's been busy, we're renovating the admin pit where my desk is so it's been more hectic than usual. The winter doldrums have almost set in. I've been watching all 3 seasons of Arrested Development and have been watching Futurama with the commentaries (I have a crush on John Di Maggio, seriously). Good news, heathrlee is pregant! Yay! More baby things to knit! I think I am heading to E-town for my birthday. Charlene has offered to put me up and hang out with me. And I finally get to see Lucas! Eee! I'm excited!

I've seen a bunch of movies and I feel like blabbing about them.

Johanne at work leant me the Die Hard trilogy. I had never seen them before. Die Hard was pretty good. I finally understood why he was barefoot and in a wifebeater. Made sense finally. Alan Rickman was good, but I didn't really buy him as a German guy. His accent was kind of weak. Die Hard 2 was not great. It was too much like the first one, like they were trying to just do it all over again. Not very original. Die Hard: With A Vengance was good. I enjoyed Samuel L and the chemistry (? there's a better word for that but I can't put my finger on it) between the 2 of them was great. Also movies like that, set in New York with the cars and the people and the buildings are usually pretty cool. Frenetic was a word that kept coming to mind while watching it. I have Die Hard 4, but I haven't seen it yet. This weekend I hope.

I downloaded Marie Antoinette ages ago. I watched it this weekend. What a crap movie. Really. The costumes and you know, Versailles was incredible, but the movie itself? Ech, bad. I don't like anything Sofia Coppola has done, from her terrible acting in that Godfather movie to Lost In Translation or the Virgin Suicides, so I don't know why I was hoping for more. What bothered me the most was the seeming randomness of the accents. Dunst and Schwartzman kept their American, Judy Davis put on some thick French, and other British ones. It was rather distracting.

I also watched Away From Her. When I saw the trailer I was really moved, more so than any trailer I think I've seen. I was looking forward to seeing it, but missed it in theatres here. It was good, I liked it, but I wasnt as emotional as I thought I would be over it. It was heartbreaking to see Pinsent trying to cope with what was happening to his wife, and how Christie was falling apart. The transformation from put together, elegant Lady to a shabby lady wearing an ugly sweater was really beleivable. I also loved how they dressed Olympia Dukakis in Sears clothes. She was definately rocking the Tabi style. Grrliz said it well, that they didn't try to hide Canada, or make it New York state. I liked that about this movie.

This week I have, so far, seen 2 movies in theatres. Yesterday I finally saw Juno. My love for Micheal Cera knows no bounds and I was not disapointed. I liked this movie. I laughed, I cried. Ellen Page was great as Juno, JK Simmons and Alison Janney were excellent parents. As much as I dispise using this phrase, Jason Bateman played a total douchebag, that guy drove me crazy. I was really rooting for Jennifer Garners character, literaly wishing that the baby would kick in the scene in the mall, that yes she would get the kid in the end. I was surprised it was nominated for so many Oscars, but I don't expect it to win a thing. It was good, but it's not an Oscar winning movie.

Tonight I saw No Country For Old Men. This was a good movie. Josh Brolin was very compelling, Javier Bardem was scary crazy (OMG that hair!) and Tommy Lee Jones, well I love him, he's great in almost anything. I was surprised by the bit part that Woody Harrelson had (and I kind of have a crush on him) and Kelly Macdonald? Well she's just cute. What I realized when the credits roled, is that there was hardly any, if no music in the movie but it wasn't missing from the movie. The silence worked, really well. And the shotgun with the huge silencer? Awesome! I had read ages ago that Llewelyn didn't make it to the end, but I was still surprised to see him lying on the floor. Ha, and at the end, when Chigurh gets hit by that car? I saw it coming and had a huge grin on my face. Is that wrong?

So tomorrow I am planning on seeing There Will Be Blood. I am looking forward to seeing it, I have only seen good things about this movie. So as of today, I am 12/100 for 2008!

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